Slovenes

Slovenes are a Slavic ethnic group native to Slovenia on the Adriatic Sea. There are 2,500,000 ethnic Slovenes in the world, with 1,631,363 living in Slovenia, as many as 178,000 in the United States, and 100,000 in Italy. Their language is Slovene, and they adhere almost entirely to Christianity, either Catholicism or Lutheranism.